Earth is often described as a water world, but how that water arrived has never been settled. For years, the focus has rested ...

A close-up view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface ...

America's next rare-earth mine is 2,000 metric tons of junk sitting in boxes in Mesa, Ariz.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he reached a framework for a deal with NATO over the future of Greenland that will include rights to rare-earth minerals.

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

A Purple Star Sapphire weighing 3,563 carats which is claimed to be the world's biggest of its kind was unveiled on Saturday ...

President Donald Trump's insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland "whether they like it or not" is just the latest ...

President Donald Trump’s latest comments are just the latest chapter in a relationship that stretches back more than a ...

From engraved dials to one-of-a-kind complications, custom watches are redefining the luxury market and reshaping the ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite. Fragments of the space rock discovered on a driveway in the Cotswolds ...

This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Source - ISAS/JAXA, CC SA 4.0. This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, ...